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‘What to do with Poland?’ The Polish Question in the Ideologies and Strategies of the Russian and Soviet Empires towards Their Peripheries (from Nicholas I to Stalin) ; Sprawa polska w ideologiach i strategiach imperium rosyjskiego i sowieckiego wobec peryferii (od Mikołaja I do Stalina)
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Wydanie I. ; 836 pages ; 25 cm. ; In the appendix, accounts of victims of the NKVD's “Polish operation” in Leningrad ; Bibliography (pages 760-812). Index. ; Funded by a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Poland ; Summary in English.
Subject and Keywords:political ideas - Russia - 19th c. ; political ideas - Russia - 20th c. ; Poland - relations - Russia - history ; Russia - relations - Poland - history ; Soviet Union - relations - Poland ; Poles abroad ; minorities - government policy - Soviet Union ; Polish question (1795-1918) ; imperialism - Russia - history ; nationalism ; Slavophilism - Russia - history ; Russification - Former Polish Eastern Territories
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This book explores the ideological and political dimensions of the Russian and Soviet empiresʼ struggles with the Polish question, encompassing both its ʻwhiteʼ and ʻredʼ forms, up until the first half of the twentieth century. Both periods of Russian policy towards its multi-ethnic peripheries faced a common challenge: addressing the legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which was dismantled at the end of the eighteenth century. The Polish question, oft en referred to in Russia as the ʻfatal affairʼ, emerged from this ʻaft erlifeʼ of the Commonwealth – as a complex set of issues stemming from the Polesʼ desire to preserve their identity and reclaim their sovereignty. The source studies included in this volume are based on extensive research conducted in post-Soviet archives since their opening in the early 1990s. They demonstrate the debates among the Russian and Soviet imperial elites and outline the policies implemented towards the Poles and the Polish question.
Historia Rosyjskiego Imperializmu
Resource type: Detailed Resource Type: Resource Identifier: Source:IH PAN, call. no II.3890 Podr. ; IH PAN, call. no III.3981 ; click here to follow the link
Language: Language of abstract: Temporal coverage:1801-1900 ; 1901-2000 ; 1901-1914 ; 1914-1918 ; 1918-1939
Rights:Creative Commons Attribution BY 4.0 license
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Digitizing institution:Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Original in:Library of the Institute of History PAS
Projects co-financed by:Ministry of Education and Science
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